CFP: Essays in Philosophy, SPECIAL ISSUE: "New Currents in Environmental Virtue Ethics"

DEADLINE EXTENDED: 10/1/23

Essays in Philosophy: New Currents in Environmental Virtue Ethics 

Issue Date: June 2024

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2023

General Editor: Ramona Ilea (Pacific University)

Issue Editor: Benjamin Hole (College of Lake County)

Essays in Philosophy (https://commons.pacificu.edu/eip/) is an open-access journal. For more information on the Board of Advisers, see https://commons.pacificu.edu/eip/editorialboard.html. 

The journal is currently accepting submissions for a special issue called “New Currents in Environmental Virtue Ethics.” For this issue, we are seeking new work in environmental virtue ethics (EVE), broadly construed. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Ethical adaptation to climate change: adapting our conceptions of moral virtues and human flourishing to the challenge of climate change
• Resilience to climate change
• Radical hope and climate change
• Human flourishing and human development
• Ethical vices and environmental problems
• Moral psychology of environmental virtues
• The role of the environment in human flourishing
• Applied virtue ethics to specific environmental challenges
• EVE and animal ethics, e.g., virtue-based “ethical veganism” and “virtuous omnivorism”
• EVE and moral standing
• EVE, individualism, and holism
• EVE for collectives (e.g., nation-states, generations, species) 
• EVE, politics, and collective action
• EVE and environmental aesthetics
• EVE and ecofeminism
• EVE and environmental pedagogy
• EVE and the capabilities approach
• EVE and geo-engineering
• EVE and ecological restoration
• EVE, environmental migration, and immigration
• EVE and climate justice
• EVE and climate activism
• Historical approaches to EVE
• Theoretical frameworks for EVE
• Problems with EVE
• EVE versus other approaches
• Is EVE anthropocentric?
• Is EVE action-guiding?  

All submissions should be sent to the Editor, Ramona Ilea, via email at: [email protected].

Please follow the journal’s guidelines for submission (https://commons.pacificu.edu/eip/styleguide.html)